Pair found guilty of murder after house fire that killed mother and her 3 children

Kemo Porter, 19, and Tristan Richards, 22, killed the family in a botched revenge attack

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a mother and her three children in a botched revenge attack.

Shehnila Taufiq, 47, her 19-year-old daughter Zainab, and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamal, 15, all died when a fire engulfed their house in Wood Hill, Leicester, in the early hours of September 13 last year.

Kemo Porter, 19, and Tristan Richards, 22, were found guilty of their murders at Nottingham Crown Court.

Leicester House fire kills four members of one family
Victim Jamal Taufiq, son of Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar.

Shaun Carter, 24, was found not guilty of four counts of murder but guilty of four counts of manslaughter.

Prosecutors alleged the fire was a "retribution process" for the fatal stabbing of Antoin Akpom, 20, hours earlier, but that the killers attacked the wrong house.

The jury is still considering charges of murder against Nathaniel Mullings, 19, Jackson Powell, 20, Aaron Webb, 20, Aaron Jeffers, 21 and a 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Leicester House fire kills four members of one family
Victim Bila Taufiq, son of Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar.

During the two-month trial, the jury heard that football coach Mr Akpom had been stabbed in the back in a confrontation involving two 19-year-olds on September 12.

Richard Latham QC, prosecuting, said the defendants were friends of Mr Akpom, and claimed that hours later they mistakenly targeted the Taufiqs' house believing it to be the home of one of the 19-year-olds involved in the confrontation.

The prosecutor said: "They simply got the wrong house - a tragedy."

The five remaining defendants were later cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter by a majority verdict.

As the verdict for the 17-year-old was read out there were tears from the public gallery and cries of 'he's only a baby!'.

The judge Mr Justice John Griffith Williams said he would hear mitigation tomorrow afternoon before sentencing on Wednesday morning.